Blaise Aguera y Arcas is the Architect of Bing Mobile and Places at Microsoft. Blaise was selected by Technology Review as a 2008 Young Innovator and was a celebrated speaker at the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference.
Deborah Estrin, the Jon Postel Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is winner of the Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award for Innovation for 2007;
Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google;
Illya Hicks, Associate Professor in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University and recipient of the 2005 Optimization Prize for Young Researchers by the Optimization Society;
Ayanna Howard, Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and selected by Technology Review as a 2003 Young Innovator;
John Kubiatowicz,Professor in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley, and named by U.S. News and World Report as People to watch for in 2004;
Patty Lopez, Component Design Engineer with Intel, a winner of Hewlett Packard’s Technical Leadership Award in 2001, and co-founder of Latinas in Computing; and
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, former chair of the IBM Academy of Engineering, AAAS Fellow, and 2001 HENAAC Hispanic Engineer of the Year.
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